
Chris Mandra Creates Direct Drive Game
Chris Mandra (DMA ’96, Composition, MM ’92, Composition and Computer Music) conceived, storyboarded, and wrote all the dialogue for a critically acclaimed and award-winning video

Chris Mandra (DMA ’96, Composition, MM ’92, Composition and Computer Music) conceived, storyboarded, and wrote all the dialogue for a critically acclaimed and award-winning video

This May, Haley Olson (MM ’18, Composition) received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre &

Composer and University of Florida professor Scott Lee (MM ’13, Composition) has been awarded Second Prize in the 2024-25 Jâca Emerging Composers Competition for his

Composer and Peabody DMA candidate Young-Jun Lee’s work MYBSTMM, created in close collaboration with vocalist Sophia Sorrentino, has been awarded First Prize in the Composition

Jamie Leidwinger (MM ’18, Composition), an Assistant Editor on DC High Volume: Batman, a new scripted, always-on podcast series featuring direct adaptations of DC’s greatest

Cody McVey’s (MM ’20, Composition) A Scarlet Gap, a piece for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra that McVey started at Peabody and shared first prize in

Emerging composer and electronic music artist Andréus Brijbasi (BM ’24, Computer Music, Composition) launches his independent record label, Red Set Records. Andréus is a 2024

Graduate student Josíah Garza was named the Classical winner of the American Pops Orchestra’s inaugural Ruth Wales Du Pont Collegiate Composition Competition at the Winterthur

This double album brings together chamber works written by faculty artist Felipe Lara between 2005 and 2021, including Corde Vocale, his first string quartet, and Sonare, the nearly 40-minute

Composer Amy Beth Kirsten (DMA ’10, Composition) joins the faculty of the 2025 Emerging Composers Intensive at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in northern California.